timesofindia.indiatimes.com Archives - 30 January 2013, Wednesday

SINGAPORE: Renowned as Asia's financial capital, lion city and media hub, Singapore recently set out to add another feather to its cap - of being a force to reckon with in design and architecture. Singapore may not be a large city, but there's no lack of design and architectural marve...

work to an Indian firm that pays extremely low wages to some of its workers. The Hampshire-based firm is best known for designer handbags sported by British celebrities such as Pippa Middleton, Prince William's sister-in-law. The Daily Mail now claims these bags with a price tag of ar...

It's a written rule; never peek into a lady's handbag. And no wonder, because you can find crazy things inside a girl's handbag. No, we aren't talking about creams, tissues and cute dolls. We are talking about scandalous things that women hide from the prying eyes of this ever inquisi...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The New Year has started with a double whammy for Air India. The airline rostered a pilot—who was suspended a day earlier—to operate the Mumbai-Singapore flight on Wednesday morning. Since that pilot did not report for work the flight had to be cancelled for "non-ava...

MUMBAI: As many as 260 passengers of a Singapore-bound Air India flight from Mumbai were stranded after the airline cancelled it citing non-availability of cockpit crew. The flight, which was scheduled to take-off at 0005 hrs today, is now expected to depart for its destination tonigh...

SINGAPORE: Singapore police on Tuesday arrested a 13-year-old Indian boy for posting a Facebook message in which he allegedly threatened to bomb a luxury casino resort in the city-state. The unnamed boy vowed to take "a big big revenge", "spit everywhere" and "plant bombs on Marina Ba...

NEW DELHI: The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page chargesheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court here on Thursday. The male friend of the victim will be the...

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The decision to shift her to Singapore was not a medical decision and was based on "direction from the top (government)", said a senior doctor at Safdarjung Hospital , where Nirbhaya was being treated. Nirbhaya had suffered irreversible brain damage in the early hou...

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The decision to shift her to Singapore was not a medical decision and was based on "direction from the top (government)", said a senior doctor at Safdarjung Hospital , where Nirbhaya was being treated. Nirbhaya had suffered irreversible brain damage in the early hou...

A hand-bag is a girl's best-friend. No really! It is. And here's a list of basic and unexpected items that could transform your purse into your very own survival-cum-makeup-cum-keep-boredom away kit. Sanitizer : One word for you, germs. Keep them away with a good sanitizer . Better sa...

SINGAPORE: The 23-year-old girl, who put up a brave battle for life after she was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus a fortnight ago that had created a nationwide outrage, died early on Saturday morning in a hospital here. The girl, was admitted to the well-known multi-o...

SINGAPORE: The 23-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and severely beaten on a bus in New Delhi died early Saturday at a Singapore hospital , after her horrific ordeal galvanized Indians to demand greater protection from sexual violence that impacts thousands of women every day. She "pa...

SINGAPORE: The condition of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim remains "extremely critical", a day after she was admitted at the super speciality Mount Elizabeth Hospital here. Hospital officials said on Friday that the girl's condition was the same as Thursday night. Hospital chi...

SINGAPORE: Doctors in Singapore battled on Thursday to save the life of the girl who sustained horrific injuries in a gang rape, after she was dramatically airlifted from New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed that the 23-year-old's attackers would fac...

NEW DELHI: The 23-year-old girl, battling for life for the past 10 days at Safdarjung hospital after being brutally gang-raped, has reached Singapore on Thursday morning. According to TV reports, the victim was taken to the Mount Elizabeth hospital from the airport. Earlier, Late on W...

NEW DELHI : A last-ditch battle has been mounted to save Nirbhaya. Late on Wednesday night, the rape victim was flown in a special air ambulance to Singapore where she will be taken to the Mount Elizabeth hospital , a top-notch critical care medical centre. "Her health is precarious, ...

NEW DELHI: The 23-year-old gang rape victim, who is battling for life for the past 10 days at Safdarjung hospital, was shifted and headed to a hospital in Singapore. Safdarjung hospital sources said the physiotherapy student was being shifted to Singapore. The name of the hospital was...

Shark fin soup, that exotic but pricey delicacy said to boost sexual potency and prevent heart disease, is going off menus in some Singapore hotels and restaurants in an effort to save sharks which face extinction from overfishing . The fins of an adult shark can only feed five people...

MUMBAI: Even as China tries to promote the Yuan as an international currency, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has joined the effort of chipping away at the dollar's pre-eminent position as the world's currency. The central bank on Monday called for inclusion of emerging market currencies ...

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MUMBAI: A slight figure in cargo pants and sneakers and a blue sweatshirt, gun-wielding Ajmal Kasab was the face of the horrific Mumbai terror attack and the key to unravel the conspiracy hatched in Pakistan. The images of Kasab ambling cockily--a backpack on his shoulders and an AK-4...

has been heralded as a hero after he returned Sg$1.1 million ($900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab. Sia Ka Tian , 70, was shocked to find the money in a black paper bag on the back seat on Monday after he dropped the couple off at a shopping cen...

SINGAPORE: A young Malaysian couple have sparked a scandal in Singapore and Malaysia after posting a sexually explicit blog that challenges conservative values in both countries. Alvin Tan , 24, a law student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and his Malaysian girlfriend ...

NEW DELHI: Leave alone the acquisition of submarines, fighters and howitzers, the Indian defence establishment ties itself in knots even on something as basic as PT shoes for jawans. Despite attempts to upgrade them to proper "sports shoes'' over the last several years, soldiers of th...

from viewing clips of an anti-Islamic film that has incited violent protests across the Muslim world, acting on a request by city authorities. Attempts to access the low-budget "Innocence of Muslims" film on the Google-owned video-sharing website resulted in a message reading: "This c...

An interesting line-up of films will be showcased at the three-day Singapore film festival to be held at the India Habitat Centre from October 1. The films to be screened include 881 by director Royston Tan, Singapore GaGa by Tan Pin Pin, Liao Jiekai Liao Jiekai's Red Dragonflies and ...

is set to launch an up to $400 million initial public offering in Singapore, a source said, in a move that will allow the backer of the trust, Indian hospitals group Fortis Healthcare (FOHE.NS), to cut its substantial debt level. The trust, which will own assets managed by Fortis, pla...

NEW DELHI: At least eight cases of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in some obscure real estate companies — each worth more than $100 million — from Singapore have come under the scanner, with the income tax's overseas unit (ITOU) having investigated them for alleged round-tripping. S...